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collaboration with other countries and other associations.”
He also believes that the building engineering profession needed to be recruiting from a more diverse workforce to “better reflect the society that it serves”. “Although we may not be the most
glamorous profession, not only can we work with cutting edge technologies; we also have an increasing need for people from all sorts of backgrounds and disciplines,” he said.
Visible BESA’s new president Tim Hopkinson
– both within our companies and within BESA.”
Mr Hopkinson will be formally
unveiling a number of initiatives aimed at young people at this month’s BESA President’s Lunch including a high profile programme for engineers showing future leadership potential; an ambassador scheme for promoting the profession to school leavers; and an extension of the Association’s support for Arkwright Trust scholarships. Encouraging young people to step
forward and seize the initiative is vital for employers, according to Mr Hopkinson, who said younger engineers were best placed to exploit digital technology and use it to improve working practices; drive productivity, deliver ‘smarter’ solutions; and improve health and safety. “The young people we should be
attracting to our industry are completely comfortable with virtual reality; the BIM environment; the Internet and many more technological advances that should be transforming our work,” said Mr Hopkinson. “They have the ability to communicate on a global platform in order to develop our industry even further in
He said that the use of modern communication methods would be a key feature of his year in office and that the BESA President would be more visible than ever before. “We have to do a better job of getting the message out that this industry offers a huge range of enticing careers – and surely one of the best ways to do that is to harness the most powerful force of our age – social media. “BESA – and its President – will be
more visible than ever in this area as we seek to spread our message using the platform that young people are not only permanently plugged into, but also reaches every corner of the earth.” He encouraged BESA members and the wider industry to judge his year in office on how successful he was at reaching out to these new and more diverse audiences. “It is my fervent hope that, when I look back on my year in office, I will be able to say that I made at least some small contribution to attracting more young people into our industry thus helping to secure its future,” added Mr Hopkinson.
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